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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ITALIAN ELECTORAL REFORM. ROME, June 18 The Parliamentary Commission appointed to examine details ol the new electoral reform, approved of the general principle by ten to eight. Gtolitti, Salandra and Orlando voted with the majority and the Catholics and Socialists wit li the minority. The Chamber meets early in July to consider the Commission’s report. FRONTIERSMAN SAILS. LONDON, June IC. The Frontiersman sailed from London to-day. The crew of twenty-live comprises young University men, whose keenness outweighs their knowledge of seamanship. Among the islands proposed to vi-it in preparation for a flight are the Aleutians Group, stretching southward of the Behring Sea. Special precalli ions are being taken to prevent the supplies left on the islands atlraeiing pirates. ANOTHER AMBUSH. JERUSALEM. June 17 A sensation has been caused through another ambush between Ramleh and Jaffa. A paymaster of the British Gendarmerie, Captain Dwan, was shot dead while motoring. It is nut known whether the assailants escaped. DRV LAW IN TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 17 The Governor has postponed the commencement of the drv regime till August, as he found the enforcement to lie particularly injurious to the interests of Turkish traders. Y.M.C.A.’s WORK. LONDON, June 17 As a permanent memorial to the Young Men's Christian Association's work in ilie war. lord Askwitb opened the Chateau de la FallaDe, between Boulogne and Wimereux, as general headquarters and starting point for the Association's pilgrimage to the win graves. RUSSIA AND JAPAN. TDK 10, June 17

The Soviet has appointed M. Jollie, ploiu'iHilcniary for the preliminary pourparlers with Japan. PADEREWSKI IN PARIS. PARIS. June 7. M. Paderewski, the famous Pi.11.-h pianist, had an amazing inception in the Tlicatie de Champs Elysees. Alter a tliree-huurs’ recital the audience applauded and demanded encores, for another hour and a quarter, before the curtain "as allowed to 1.. e rung down finally. 'The receipts amounted to 120,001) franes. Every inch of standing room was occupied, apart from several hundred people on the stage behind the piano. M. Paderewski and his wife had another enthusiastic reception in the street, after the conceit, where the crowd shouted ‘Vive la Pologne !'’ DOMINION'S FINANCIAL SOUNDNESS. LONDON, Juno 17. 'The "Spectator” congratulates Mr .Massey mi reintroducing penny post, age, and says: "This i - not lhe first occasion New Zealand has given a lead to the Empire. Its reintroiluetion is ii proof of the Dominion's iinnneia! soundness." GEEST OF HONOUR. LONDON, June 17 Sir James Allen was the guest- of honour at the New Zealand -Indents' (Oxford) dinner in Magdalen College, at which New Zealand student.- from Cambridge were tihu present. A MOSCOW HORROR. (Received this day at 11.45 a.in.) .MOSCOW. June IS. 'The police have been Tallied lor some time by the number of dead men wrapped in sacks found in out of way places in the city. Finally they arrested a call driver, KamarcJf. a man of kindly appenrnm e. who conlessed that lie had killed thirty-throe men and one woman, mainly on the grounds that he hated life and regarded all men as deceivers, who ought to be destroyed. Kamaroff lured his victims to his premises, od’onng horses tor sale He then stunned them with a hammer and strangled them. A STRIKE. CHRISTIANIA. June 18. Fourteen thousand workers in the

paper-making industry have struck. BRITAIN EXPRESSES REGRE'I. (Received this dav at P-m.) DELHI, June 18. The British Government has expressed regret, and has offered compensation to the Afghan Government m connection with the inadvertent violation of the frontier during air operations against AVaziris tribesmen, wnen bombs fell on the Afghan side <» the frontier killing two and wounding hw Afghans. DISCHARGING LIQUOR. (Received this day at 10 a.mA HALIFAX. June IB Halifax ha- joined Bermuda as a parti, w station for trans-Atlantic liquor cargoes. The Kumiss litter Sachem and Red Cross liner &«lvm, l.oth discharged their supplies here before proceeding to American ports. THE BETTING TAX. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON. Jtine IB The Betting Tax Committee witnessed in one of the Committee Rooms m (lie House of Commons, a demonstration of a totalisator in use on Australian racecourses. The demonstration was conducted by means ol a cinema and a model apparatus. A FAMOnt PIANIST. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. June 18. Paderewski has arrived in London and gives recitals in Queens Hall tomorrow. Every seat is sold and could have lieon sold many tunes over. He gives three more recitals holme going to Switzerland to rest, prior to returning to America. From seventy recitals during his recent tour of United States, Paderewski made one hundred thousand pounds sterling. SIKT’S DISGUST. (Received this day at 11.40 a.m.) PARIS. June IS. Siki states he is disgusted with boxing and everything connected with it and has decided to abandon it and take up linn training.